Is This Bodily Fluid Seriously The Hot New Energy Drink Of 2014?

Breast milk is back. A new article in New York magazine claims that there's a budding trend among athletes to suck down copious quantities of breast milk to give them a performance edge. Some are skeptical of the merits of the stuff. Some are just plain grossed out. Some are probably wondering, "Where can I get some breast milk of my own?" Well, because the internet is the internet, there's a sort of eBay/Craigslist hybrid exclusively for the highly natural white elixir called Only the Breast. Proceed with caution. If that's not your speed, maybe instead check out this article we previously ran on some other breast milk uses.

Cheese isn't that unusual in art galleries. In fact, it can be as ubiquitous as wine. But cheese made from breast milk? Not so much. This past weekend, the breast-milk-as-food debate landed on our home turf when a New York gallery offered breast-milk cheese to its visitors. Yes, cheese made from human breast milk.

When we first heard about the breast-milk food trend, when breast-milk ice cream went on sale in London last February, we raised a virtual eyebrow. Some of us assumed the guys who tried "Baby Gaga" — churned with the, er, assistance of a woman named Victoria Hiley and 14 other donors — must have some screws loose. Others saw breast-milk ice cream as the natural next step of a culture obsessed with organic, free-range, fair-trade food products. A few of us thought it was a little kinky. Maybe Lady Gaga thought so, too: She threatened to sue. (Doesn't she like kinky things?)

Which makes us wonder: Do you think eating ice cream or cheese made from breast milk is disgusting — or is it just natural? And if you're one of the few who has tasted these unusual delicacies, well, how was it?